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No. 106,405. Patented Aug. 16, 1870.

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SAMUEL W. PORTER', OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent o. 106,405, dated August 16, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAMRO- D-STOP..

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known thatvI, SAMUEL -W. PORTER, of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful Improved Ramrod-Stop; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawing makingpart of this "specification, an-.l -to the letters of' reference marked thereon, in whichn Figure 1 is a plan view'of my invention.

Figure 2 is a side view of the same.

Figure 3 is an end view of the same.

Figure 4 is av view of a portion of a gun, with my invention applied.

Figure 5 is a longitudinal section through line E F of fig. 4.

Figure 6 shows the recess formed in the wood of the gun to receive the stop.

rod.

My invention relates to a device for securing the ramrod within its socket in the gun, and consists of a thin bar ot' metal, having a projection at each end nearly perpendicular to the bar, one of said projections having a hole therein, thrt'iugh which passes the small round spindle, made upon one end of the bandspring.

The side of the bar opposite the projections is made slightly concave to properly fit the. barrel, and the outer end ot' the projection havinga 'hole therein, may be made concave, to properly tit thecylindrcal form ofthe ramrod. A 'That others skilled in the art may be able to make and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe its construction and mode of operation.

In the drawing- B represents the bar ot` metal, which may be about three inehesiu length, arid which is made slightly concave on one side.

On the opposite side ot' the bar there are two projections, a and c, and'botb may be cylindrical in form, for convenience, and thronghthe projection c is made the hole-d; and the. said projection is made concave upon the outer end, as shown in tig. 3, for the purpose ot'itting properly the cylindrical form of the ramrod.

The stop is secured in place by cutting away the wood D upon the side next to the barrel, immediately opposite to the ramrod-socket, making a recess therein ofthe same size and form as the said stop, so'that, when the stop is inserted therein, theconcave side ot' the bar shall be Hush with the concave part of'the wood; and when the wood is attached to the barrel the said stop may rest lirmly` thereon.

The recess in the wood t'or the stopis shown at a b' c in fig. 6.

The position of the said stop, when secured in-place, is shown more fully in tig. 5.

H. represents the ramrod, having a prot'uberance, g, thereon, the upper part of which is made in the form of an annular shoulder, at rv, that partof the ramrod Figure 7 is a view of the upper portion of the ramabove the shoulder x being of a smaller diameter than the protuberance g. I The band-spring is made in the usual form, c represent-ing the main part,..having a small spindle, t', made upon one end, which'is shown in dotted lines in igf4.

A hole is made iu the wood, to coincide with the hole made in the projections c upon the stop, and, when the stop is inserted in its place, the spindle i upon the spring e is inserted into its hole in the wood, passing through the hole d in the said stop, thus securing the said stop firmly in place.

The operation of the device is as follows:

As the ramrod is inserted into its socket, I, which is made in Ythe wood .of the gun, passing underneath the band J, the protuberance g, as it passes down over the projection o, forces the-upper end of the ramrod outward and away from the barrel, while the band J operates to press the ramrod inward toward the barrel. y

The ramrod thus actsv as a spring while being in serted in its place, and when the protuberance g has passed below the projection c, the annular shoulder :c permits't-he ramrod to, spring inward toward the gun, so 'that,vit` force be used to withdraw the ramrod from 'its socket, the shoulderx will impinge against the said projection c, andr prevent its being withdrawn, unless the upper end ot' the ramrodbe pressed outward from` the barrel, when it may be easily withdrawn from its socket.`

The imide of the projection c may be cut away slightly at c, to give a good bearing to the annular shoulder. x, when the ramrod is in place in its socket.

I am aware that devices have heretofore been used, wherein the ramrod has a protuberance' thereon, which impingedagainst the lower edge of the iron L, which was madel to project outward from the wood for that purpose, the end iron being held in place by means ot' a pin or screw passing through the said iron and into the wood; but the pin being so near the end, there was not suflicient strength ot' wood 'to prevent the iron from being forced ntf bythe constant recoil ot' the gun in tiring.

It will be seen that xnyl invention entirely overcomes this objection, inasmuch as the two projections a and c are irnxlyimbedded in, and have a bearing against a much larger vportion ot' the wood than in the device above mentioned.

Having thus described my invention,

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent', is

An improved ranuod-stop,.consisting ot' the bar b, having thereon the two projections, e and c, the saine being used in connection with the protnberance r/,or annular shoulder'x, formed upon the ramrod, and the band J, all constructed and operated substantially as described.

SAMUEL W. PORTER.

Witnesses:

T. A. Corvus, EDWIN lina'rnslY 

